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Cake day: December 17th, 2023

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  • A ton of employers also have a tree branch up their ass about drug testing. Even for legal drugs and for positions that it doesn’t matter.

    My last job was mostly staffed by middle class suburban women, and down here every other one of them is on something illegal, from weed to their child’s Ativan to heroin. Well, they randomly drug tested our office one day, saying anyone who was positive was fired. Out of the 8 people in my office, 6 of us were positive for something, including me, and I know one of them was a false negative considering that I’d recently purchased a brownie from them.

    Anyways, they just conveniently forgot about their new drug policy after that. No one got fired for it. From the rumors I heard, the district manager was going to go through with firing everyone, but someone from corporate reminded him that we were already understaffed by 5 people, and that firing 6 out of 8 people would mean closing the office entirely.



  • I mean, when you’re being treated more fairly by your employer, you may not consider that forming a union is still necessary in the inevitable event that they rug pull those benefits at some point.

    And I’ve got nothing against miners (other than standard environmental concerns), but when they keep voting for the people that strip away every small gain their ancestors literally fought and died for, I stop having sympathy.

    Also, what on earth are primarily West Coast based tech workers gonna do about miners in the Virginias? There’s an entire continent between them.



  • I mean, for years and years, even after the dotcom bubble, developers have been able to get crazy high salaries, job security, and tons of other perks. Now that that’s gone, at least they’re doing something. So many other professions just rolled over and let the businesses fuck them (looking at you, every industry from Virginia down, especially mining)

    Edit: the comment I’m replying to says “tech workers”, not just game devs. Game devs have unfortunately always been the poorly treated little black sheep of the tech world.